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A a, ἄλφα

A, 🇬🇷, 🇬🇷, 🇬🇷, the first letter of the Greek alphabet, opening the series which the letter 🇬🇷 closes. Hence the expression 🇬🇷 [L T Tr WH 🇬🇷] 🇬🇷 [Ὦ L WH], Rev. i. 8, 11 Rec., which is explained by the appended words 🇬🇷, xxi. 6, and by the further addition 🇬🇷, xxii. 13. On the meaning of the phrase cf. Rev. xi. 17; Is. xli. 4; xliv. 6; xlviii. 12; [esp. B. D. Am. ed. p. 73]. A, when prefixed to words as an inseparable syllable, is 1. (🇬🇷), like the Lat. in-, the Eng. un-, giving a negative sense to the word to which it is prefixed, as 🇬🇷; or signifying what is contrary to it, as 🇬🇷; before vowels generally 🇬🇷, as 🇬🇷. 2.  (🇬🇷), akin to the particle 🇬🇷 [cf. Curtius § 598], indicating community and fellowship, as in 🇬🇷. Hence it is 3. (🇬🇷), strengthening the force of terms, like the Lat. con in composition; as 🇬🇷 fr. 🇬🇷 [yet cf. W. 100 (95)]. This use, however, is doubted or denied now by many [e. g. Lob. Path. Element. i. 34 sq.]. Cf. Kühner i. 741, § 339 Anm. 5; [Jelf § 342 🇬🇷]; Bttm. Gram. § 120 Anm. 11; [Donaldson, Gram. p. 334; New Crat. §§ 185, 213; L. and S. s. v.].*

🇬🇷, indecl. prop. name (🇬🇷 in Joseph.), ‎(fr. the unused Hebr. radical ,—Syr.  ‎libidinosus, lascivus,—[enlightened, Fürst; acc. to Dietrich wealthy, or fluent, like ‏],‎ acc. to Philo, de ebriet. § 32, fr. ‏‎ mountain and equiv. to 🇬🇷), Aaron, the brother of Moses, the first high-priest of the Israelites and the head of the whole sacerdotal order: Lk. i. 5; Acts vii. 40; Heb. v. 4; vii. 11; ix. 4.*

🇬🇷, indecl., ‏‎, 1. ruin, destruction, (fr. to perish), Job xxxi. 12. 2. the place of destruction i. q. Orcus, joined with ‏,‎ Job xxvi. 6; Prov. xv. 11. 3. as a proper name it is given to the angel-prince of the infernal regions, the minister of death and author of havoc on earth, and is rendered in Greek by 🇬🇷 Destroyer, Rev. ix. 11.*

🇬🇷, (🇬🇷 weight), without weight, light; trop. not burdensome: 🇬🇷 I have avoided burdening you with expense on my account, 2 Co. xi. 9; see 1 Th. ii. 9, cf. 6. (Fr. Aristot. down.)*

‎🇬🇷 [WH 🇬🇷], Hebr. father, in the Chald. emphatic state, i. e. 🇬🇷, a customary title of God in prayer. Whenever it occurs in the N. T. (Mk. xiv. 36; Ro. viii. 15; Gal. iv. 6) it has the Greek interpretation subjoined to it; this is apparently to be explained by the fact that the Chaldee, through frequent use in prayer, gradually acquired the nature of a most sacred proper name, to which the Greek-speaking Jews added the appellative from their own tongue.*

🇬🇷 [WH 🇬🇷. (see their Intr. § 408)], indecl. prop. name (in Joseph. [e. g. antt. 1, 2, 1] 🇬🇷), ‏ ‎(breath, vanity), Abel, the second son born to Adam (Gen. iv. 2 sqq.), so called from his short life and sudden death [cf. B. D. Am. ed. p. 5], (Job vii. 16; Ps. xxxix. 6): Mt. xxiii. 35; Lk. xi. 51; Heb. xi. 4; xii. 24.*

🇬🇷, indecl. prop. name (Joseph. antt. 7, 10, 3; 8, 10, 1🇬🇷 [W. § 6, 1 m.], 🇬🇷), and  (my father is Jehovah), Abia [or Abijah, cf. B. D. s. ν.], 1. a king of Judah, son of Rehoboam: Mt. i. 7 (1 K. xiv. 31; xv. 1). 2. a priest, the head of a sacerdotal family, from whom, when David divided the priests into twenty-four classes (1 Chr. xxiv. 10), the class Abia, the eighth in order, took its name: Lk. i. 5.*

🇬🇷, indecl. prop. name (though in Joseph. antt. 6, 14, 6 🇬🇷), (father of abundance), Abiathar, a certain Hebrew high-priest: Mk. ii. 26,—where he is by mistake confounded with Ahimelech his father (1 S. xxi. 1 sqq.); [yet cf. 1 S. xxii. 20 with 1 Chr. xviii. 16; xxiv. 6, 31; also 2 S. xv. 24-29; 1 K. ii. 26, 27 with 2 S. viii. 17; 1 Chr. xxiv. 6, 31. It would seem that double names were esp. common in the case of priests (cf. 1 Macc. ii. 1-5; Joseph. vit. §§ 1, 2) and that father and son often bore the same name (cf. Lk. i. 5, 59; Joseph. l. c. and antt. 20, 9, 1). See McClellan ad loc. and B. D. Am. ed. p. 7].*